
GFS analyses at 0.5 degree resolution (winds and heights at 850mb), column water vapor, and IR cloud imagery.
This is a DRILSDOWN project notebook, capturing images from an IDV analysis. To reproduce or operate this Jupyter notebook, you need to have installed The IDV, Anaconda, and set up a few necessary things for the DRILSDOWN package, as explained at https://unidata.github.io/drilsdown/quickstart
%reload_ext ipython_IDV
%make_image -capture legend -caption 'Feb 21, weeks ahead'
%make_image -capture legend -caption 'Northern trade surge crosses equator at west, southern one appears'
%make_image -capture legend -caption 'Souther surge approaches Madagascar, northern surge south of Sri Lanka'
%make_image -capture legend -caption 'Fateful airmass crosses Madagascar, while eastern cyclone forms'
%make_image -capture legend -caption 'Swirl in Mozambique channel; mid-ocean cyclone matures'
%make_image -capture legend -caption 'First landfall 3/3'
%make_image -capture legend -caption 'Drifting around over Africa'
%make_image -capture legend -caption 'Back in the Channel. IR cloud data now: Note relevance of 50mm (dark blue)'
%make_image -capture legend -caption 'A slight midlatitude pulse. Again note relevance of 50mm (dark blue)'
%make_image -capture legend -caption 'Wicked eye. Bad news.'
%make_image -capture legend -caption 'Landfall'
# Moving image
%make_movie -capture legend -caption 'Whole sequence: 3 weeks'